Einstein Fellows Symposium 2013

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October 29-30, 2013

Phillips Auditorium

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA


Tuesday October 29

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9:00 - 9:20Welcome
9:20 - 9:40James Guillochon (2013) - Harvard University
A Joint Analysis of PS1-10jh and PS1-11af: Comparing and Contrasting Two Near-Eddington Tidal Disruption Events
9:40 - 10:00Joey Neilsen (2012) - Boston University
The 3 Ms Chandra Campaign on Sgr A*: A Census of X-ray Flaring Activity from the Galactic Center
10:00- 10:20Rubens Reis (2011) - University of Michigan
Reflections from beyond our local Universe
10:20 - 10:40Christian Reisswig (2012) - California Institute of Technology
Formation and Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Supermassive Star Collapse

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:20Laura Blecha (2012) - University of Maryland, College Park
Signatures of Single and Dual Narrow-Line Active Galactic Nuclei
11:20 - 11:40Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (2013) - Northwestern
Galactic Winds Driven by Active Galactic Nuclei
11:40 - 12:00Amy Reines (2011) - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Dwarf Galaxies with Active Massive Black Holes
12:00 - 12:20Smadar Naoz (2012) - Harvard University
The Seeds of a Magnetic Universe

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:40 Keynote Speaker: Douglas Finkbeiner - Harvard University
The Origin of the Fermi Bubbles: AGN or starburst?
2:40 - 3:00Meng Su (2012) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multi-wavelength observations of the Fermi bubbles and the implication to its nature
3:00 - 3:20Lorenzo Sironi (2011) - Harvard University
Following TeV Photons in Blazar Jets from Birth to Death
3:20 - 3:40Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (2011) - California Institute of Technology
The secret life of a pion in the Sun

3:40 - 4:00 Tea

4:00 - 4:20Tim Linden (2013) - University of Chicago
The Indirect Detection of Dark Matter at the Galactic Center
4:20 - 4:40Krzysztof Nalewajko (2013) - University of Colorado Boulder
Understanding gamma-ray flares of blazars
4:40 - 5:00Ken Shen (2011) - University of California at Berkeley
A Paradigm Shift for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors



Wednesday October 30

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9:00 - 9:20Ann-Marie Madigan (2012) - University of California at Berkeley
Gravitational instabilities in Kepler Potentials
9:20 - 9:40Leo Stein (2012) - Cornell University
Parameterizing and constraining scalar corrections to general relativity
9:40 - 10:00Rutger van Haasteren (2013) - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gravitational-wave detection with precise timing of millisecond pulsars.
10:00- 10:20Luke Roberts (2013) - California Institute of Technology
Neutrinos from Proto-Neutron Stars
10:20- 10:40Sam Gralla (2011) - University of Maryland (College Park)
On the Outer Pulsar Magnetosphere

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:20Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (2012) - Stanford University
AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies
11:20 - 11:40Matthew Kunz (2011) - Princeton University
Pegasus: A New Hybrid-Kinetic Particle-in-Cell Code for Astrophysical Plasma Dynamics
11:40 - 12:00Laura Lopez (2011) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Role of Stellar Feedback in the Dynamics of HII Regions

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 1:50Akos Bogdan (2011) - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Young AGN outburst running over older X-ray cavities
1:50 - 2:10Selma de Mink (2013) - Carnegie Observatories
The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers
2:10 - 2:30Reinout van Weeren (2012) - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Radio Observations of Distant Merging Galaxy Clusters
2:30 - 2:50Mario Manuel (2013) - University of Michigan
Laboratory Astrophysics: Producing Scaled Hydrodynamic Systems Using High-power Lasers

2:50 - 3:10 Tea

3:10 - 3:30Chris Nixon (2012) - University of Colorado, Boulder
Tearing up circumbinary discs
3:30 - 3:50Yan-Fei Jiang (2013) - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Understanding Accretion Disks through Three Dimensional Radiation MHD Simulations
3:50 - 4:10Sasha Tchekhovskoy (2013) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
What sets jet power in black hole accretion systems?